The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-13

This may also account for hi
insisting in that message "Tha
so long as the present valuation
of real estate stands, great injus.
lice will be done to .all whose
property is even approximately
correctly valued, and the State
will continue unable to meet ths
public. demands without embar
assment." Yet he felt that the
! farmers of the country had grown
rich by virtue of the blessings oI
Republican taxing system and
were qwrongfully escaping then
share of the State taxation. Ac.
co.ding!y, he called the attention
of The General Assembly TO their
delinquency and recommended
therefore that revaluation be
had at once, instead of waiting for
The next decenniaI valuation in
I 1S98:~ But The legislature did
not take the same view of the sit.
ua'ion. So there are great
many people who doubt that
such recommendations were ever
made by the Governor. A garb
led or changed copy of this mes
sage issbeing circulated by these
politicians who do not wish the
people TO know what was actual
ly proposed. But the Governor
prefers TO stand by his own lam
guage. What l have read 10 you
is from the Senate Journal Of
1856 on pages 361 and 1863, AID
is in his own words. Let US turn
from the land taxing proposal of
this Republican Administration
TO the land saving policy of the
Democratic National Adminisira-
tion. We have become familiar
with the statements of the i'm
mense amount ofthc public domain
which had been granted to rail-
way and other corporations by
the Republican party. We have
seen them giving to favorite |
bodies of capitalists tracts of the |
public lands which in the aggre-
gate equal the territory Of sever
al OF The largest states III the I'm
ion. We indulge in a Just and
pardonahle pride, that neither
before the Republican party came
nto power nor since the return
IF ours has a single acre been
yIven TO- The corporations by our
,arty. We claim credit for dis
inctlyaggressive policysto recov-
sr, restore and retain for the use
IT actual settlers. all The land
hat can be rightfully restored to
hem. To do this requires the
of monstrous abuses.
Which have sprung into existence
lhd flourished under Republican
ule. Leases by cattle syndicates
# great bodies oflands belonging
o the Indians at trifling rates,
ad been sanctioned. Disturb
nces were arising BECAUSE ofthe
rands or deceptions which had
cen practiced upon the Indians,
rob them of their homes. This ,
ADMINISTRATION summarily broke
p that practice and caused those
md grabbers 10 vacate at once. .
.uiet was restored and the :
eighboring settlers ceased to ;
nteri ain alarms. Vast tracts of !
ublic lands had been seized up !
n fand fenced in by ranchmen :
ithout a thought of The rights 6
citizens seeking homes, or even y
'e passing traveller. Over such =
the cattle lord and The \
Nv boy reigned supreme. Cleve- :
nd's administration immediate. :
began to drive off these usurp ;,
s. Among them were some - a
ointment Republican statesmen a a
Ie Stephen W. Dorsey was !,
TO take down thirty b
'lr miles of fence. A prominent o
low sinner, Mr.. S. W. Allerton 9,
Chicago, recently said: Moth o.
= but the election Of James G. h,
aine, with his broad views of in
Fairs can avert disaster 10 the in
st ranch interests of the West" N
'leful lamentations because of ST
2 faithful execution of the law. be
g know that Mr. Blame had th
ry "broad views" especially ra
en corporation was trying to pc
a broad strip of the broad Bl
es of the peoples lands. But fol
will never be elected in time ira
prevent those rich squatters pr
m being driven from their un- on
'fGl holdlneH. Let me show EST
' rapidly aud elfectually this mi
ninisiraiiOn OF ours is moving liv
light these wrongs. Already :rit
e the officials of the General an,
I'd Office sought out 465 cases llc
unlawful enclosures of the pre-
'lic lands. covering in the ag-
gate nearly 100000 acres \
r one third as much as the arr
lble acreage of The state Of ui,
o. Proceedings had been in. WI, vii
Ited 10 compel The removal of ,'as M
fences in 133 cases. enclosing G"; "
5.444 acres, which are still M M
ding Proceedings have been ~ ~
or the efforts of spec. u,o ,io
gents OF the land office. in 165 ~ .ne
:. aegregating 3.39I,766 acres "p'
The land thus thrown open r
etuai settlers. From 250.744
5. the fences were being re- "'i
ed. when last examined. and tha'
5 amounting 10 over a million is 4
a half acres, are awaiting ac par,